So the trial of the media is all but over. Rebekah Brooks seems to have skipped all responsibility. Andy Coulson has been made scapegoat and yet that maybe brought into question due to the bumbling antics of sort of chosen leader David Cameron. Rupert Murdoch has made a mint.

A full-page apology ad published in British newspapers by News International.

It all starts from power and money. Rupert Murdoch has it. Throughout the whole trial he has controlled everything he could control. Other players like Rebekah Brooks and her coven have been gift a hand from a man I am sure they worship more so than any deity they might have strayed upon during their scrap to what life they perceive was worthy. Andy Coulson sued News Corp to cover his costs, and indeed News Corp are going to pay at figures around £60 million at current estimates for the trial itself, and we the tax payer could be paying around £40 million. That sticks firmly in the craw. Especially considering by all accounts it could turn out to be the biggest waste of tax payers money. It may happen that Coulson and his retrial are already compromised by none other than David Cameron.

In terms of what we managed to actually prosecute, we only have one ham-handed success as I see it. Yet that success is meaningless in terms of goals I would have set for the whole investigation. At the least I was hoping for punishment to be metered out with the intent to ensure that news companies are governed correctly and understand that the people they make their wages from are to be treated as such. We did not reach deep enough into the underbelly of what really is going on behind the many powerful doors Rupert Murdoch and in fact he turned the whole darn affair to his advantage. We have been handed a man to call bad, to be convicted and sent down. One high ranking member of the chain. Despite all indications that this who wrong doing ethos was rife and still is rife within the Murdoch empire. Despite a deep look into the history of Brooks and Coulson which revealed they were the same in many ways. The drive, the intelligence and the will to do whatever it took to achieve their aims.

Some things to think about. Firstly, the tactics of the defense played a large hand in how the evidence was delivered. They played the system of evidence presentation to their advantage. Evidence had to be submitted without any reference to why they were evidence in the trial. Therefore the Crown (thats us!) were only allowed to make an opening statement. This leads just two people attempting to present a story from masses amounts of evidence, with an army of defending lawyers pointing out the haphazard manner in which evidence was pieced together. The evidence itself was selective to say the least. A story of a safe being lost. A safe. Being lost. I repeat for gravity. How could the hierarchy not know about all that went on? What exactly is that has all powerful men fawning over Rebekah Brooks? What evidence was not presented, due to either off the record evidence or due to deletion and destruction? Given all the power in media how much can we trust them? How much wool has been pulled over our eyes?… Continues …

The site named GöbekliTepe was in use for thousands of years. Over time it was expanded time and again. Most of the unearthed portions of the site also contain more rooms with the T-stones which are seen in the excavated portion. So far, there is no evidence that it housed a permanent settlement. However, when it was in use, thousands of people could be contained within it.… Continues …

Then consider who the people were who built the site, which was probably in rudimentary form 14,000 years ago. They were hunter-gatherers who were as smart as were are. They had not discovered metal working nor pottery. They were superstitious. There were dangerous animals in the areas where they hunted. They needed courage and teamwork to complete a successful hunt. They were using spears and other stone tipped weapons and clubs.

People did not live at GöbekliTepe. They met there. Why? Some have proposed that the place was a temple. Perhaps in a distant sort of way.… Continues …

With more than one disaster competing for the top new headline position within the last few weeks, it does indeed feel as anything is possible at the moment. Sitting from my safe haven of the North East currently, eyes glued to the unfolding dramas and pinching myself occasionally to ensure reality has not bolted out the door. This country could quite easily be on the cusp of a civil war, revolution, be plunged into the sad reality of martial law(perhaps shipped in). Whatever does eventuate, you can be guaranteed of two things. Politicians who began the who fiasco, will be parading around ensuring the required amount camera time and pithy sound bites are dished out, and it will damage our economy even further meaning more doom and gloom headlines for the foreseeable future. Its grim up north some say, but at the moment at least we don't have to content with violious vagabonds tearing up our city centres.

The most beguiling of all recent stories is the eruption of wanton looting, burning and an array of different criminal acts being carried out by large gangs of young louts across the country. This feels like the culmination of blunder after blunder everyone currently in positions that have been gifted to the The media come time and time again to the conclusion that Blackberry Instant Messager has had a large part to play, as have many internet social and communicative tools. Bit of a shame for Blackberry really, getting caught in the crossfire between an large amounts of media companies attempting not to implode and venting their frustration at the recently departed bedfellows also known as current and previous members of the government, and a large percentage of disenfranchised, muppets with a thirst for Carling Special Brew, chucking things, especially if they can be ignited then thrown, and the odd 32 inch tv or 500.… Continues …

After the British Parliament's e-petitions website went live they cannot ignore calls for the debate on the death penalty for child killers and on-duty police murders. Any petition that gains more the 100,000 signatures from UK citizens must now go to the cross-party Commons Backbench Business Committee, which will then decide if it is worthy of a debate.

The restoration for capital punishment was last debated in 1998 (during the passage of Human Rights Act), and was rejected by 158 votes. However there has been a build up of public opinion for this bill. With Conservative MP Priti Patel and party Colleague Andrew Turner saying they are in favour of restoration of capital punishment “for the most serious and significant crimes”.… Continues …

My wife gave birth to our first child a few weeks ago, and I'm writing this after a midnight run to the hospital laboratory with a stool sample, to check if our baby's diarrhea is anything to worry about.

It's not. Which is good, but I'm wondering if I'm destined to spend the next 18 years on pins and needles, waiting anxiously for diagnoses, rifling through parenting books, and scouring the web for info. I'm going to need some way to keep from stressing about every little hiccup and cough.

And then it struck me: the news media does this to us too. It throws impending doom in our faces every day — as if we couldn't imagine it ourselves! Catastrophe is literally around every corner. Even innocuous events are spun to their full, ominous potential. It is really and truly an anxiety-inducing parade of fear, and it's non-stop, 24 hours a day.

What kind of terrible events are on tap at the moment? Here's a small sampling:… Continues …

From the news of Bin Laden's death and subsequent burial at sea I was keenly aware that this would give huge rise to yet another conspiracy theory. These types of theories have been bandied about the Web and written up against all major events that have happened for the past 100 years plus, from the moon landing to Hitler setting the Reichstag fire, the deaths of Diana, JFK, Abraham Lincoln, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the motivations behind various wars, aliens, the using of different chemicals on the populace and of course 9/11.

I have read some of these theories and the "Collapse of Building 7" included as one of the main factors to the 911 theory did sound very plausible. I still wonder as to how it collapsed but I just have never been able to whip my head around the "whole" idea of mass government conspiracies. I cannot see, personally, that governments would go to such lengths for certain alleged gains which rarely are achieved.